That's a really great point, and one I hadn't considered. Of course, in a fantasy ideal world, the way things would work is that the Ruby developers would crea

That's a really great point, and one I hadn't considered. Of course, in a fantasy ideal world, the way things would work is that the Ruby developers would create their own repository for .debs.. This would mean that if I want the latest and greatest files, I can add their repository to my existing package system, and everything integrates. When I did an "apt-get upgrade" it would check the Ruby repository, and upgrade all my ruby packages, too.. Then, when a package had proven itself to be stable enough, it could be copied back into the standard Ubuntu/Debian repositories, so that everyone could have it, even if they didn't add the repositories. Of course, in the real world, that would be far to much work for the Ruby developers, and would require that they customize for one specific OS.. But a man can dream, can't he? ;)